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I am working on a project for surveying oyster beds for a local oyster company. I need to be able to have a flight plan using GPS to fly over the beds and take pictures. However, google maps GPS data…Continue

Recently I have been talking with a guy from my home town who owns a local oyster company. Every couple weeks/month he has his workers boat out to the oyster beds during low tide and they are patches…Continue

I am consistently only breaking or cracking the propellers on the left and right side of my arducopter which are the ccw propellers. I have cracked 7 ccw vs. cracking 1 or 2 of the front and back cw…Continue

I've heard that engaging simple mode during a flight malfunction, such as the quad getting turned around in the wrong direction, can save the quad so that you can "bring it home" and get control of…Continue

"If you explore the mission planner section there are a number of automated flight path routines, one of which is a phot0 grid. Define the area, it asks for some parameters and automatically creates a grid of waypoints to cover the area."

"I wouldn't necessarily need the exact flight path to be recorded with GPS coordinates at every point of the flight path. Basically I just need to have it fly in the lawnmower pattern over the 20 acres and then have it be able to repeat that…"

"Well thank you for taking the time to do that, the results do look good!. Now my only other concern would be how to have like 10 linear images like this and then connecting them into one large rectangular image of the whole oyster bed area."

"vReveal worked even better than I anticipated.I attached my GoPro2 to my car and drove down the block at about 10 MPH. The drive lasted about 30-seconds and covered a couple of thousand feet. When I used vReveal (demo mode) to make a panorama image,…"

"What you are seeking is already there, you just trip CH7 at each waypoint you want recorded.
The missions can only be set by vector points ie: waypoints, and the APM tracks between them, with or without additional commands for other functions.
If…"

"I am definitely not dead set on using a GoPro. I might be looking into near infrared cameras because it may be able to pick up the growth patters of the oysters better. What cameras would you recommend for photomapping?"

"To be able to save the current position as a waypoint, yes.
What I'd love to see is a full record+playback mode, so I can do certain aerial photography missions with one operator instead of two: fly once at the pilot, then fly again in…"

"I've never tried autoland.
Later today I may try something using VReveal. I will attach my GoPro to the car (shooting sideways) and drive down the street. If I am right, I will have a single panoramic image of a few blocks.…"

"Well the VReveal Pro thing sounds awesome because if I could just have a video converted to a still image that would mean I wouldn't have to have pictures that need to be overlapped, triggered at the right time, etc. But for the accuracy…"

"It depends on the stitching software you use. An interesting one is VReveal Pro, which takes a video file and makes a still panorama. It might be interesting to see what it does to a video looking straight down. I will add that to…"

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These camera's are $299, full widescreen HD, 2 hours of battery life. They come with a waterproof casing and are very resistant to shock. Combined with a 16Gb SD card, you can shoot about 4 hours of video. My brother works in LA and he just bought a few of these for a documentary he is going on oyster farming. He has some pretty impressive vids of dredging for the oyster bags under water. I think this would be a perfect addition to arduCopter.

I recently have had very bad luck with my dynam hawk sky as you can see by the amount of gorilla glue and duct tape. So far I have sliced the wing off by running into a field goal post at a football field, hit trees twice, and ran it full speed onto the top of the roof of my local high school...but glue and tape can solve anything :)...with the extra weight from the tape and the glue I decided to upgrade to two 400 speed microjet v3 motors and 2 20amp ESC's to power this beast. I hot… Continue

The video in the link is to a video of a camera that uses electromagnetic induction to supply power to the camera from the power lines. Near the end of the video they are showing a 4 armed copter that has two motors with blades on each arm to make an octocopter. They said it will be able to lift the 10 pound camera load with no problem. Has anyone else ever…

Over the last couple days I have been raping my bank account and getting everything together to make my UAV. This is by far one of the most exciting projects I have done. For only have being a member on this site for a couple months now, the benefits from this site and the help and the community has had a great impact on me as well as my informational well being on UAV design and technology. My knowledge has expanded far beyond the reaches I could have ever imagined by becoming a member of DIY… Continue